Author
Reza Pirighadim
Founder of Lexpad. A senior AI engineer and backend architect, with more than 11 years of building backends. He makes Lexpad and publishes the guides and free tools on this site.
Profile updated 25 October 2026.

- Role
- Founder of Lexpad
- Work
- AI Technical Lead at Jack Westin
- Based in
- Istanbul
- On this site
- 51 guides, 5 free tools
Work
Reza is a senior AI engineer and backend architect. He has been building backends for more than 11 years.
He is AI Technical Lead at Jack Westin, where he builds an AI student assistant for its MCAT prep platform. The assistant grounds its answers in the course material, and it is evaluated for accuracy.
Earlier, he worked at Alien Intellect, DrBalcony, Digikala, Wallex and Holoo Software. He speaks Persian, English and Turkish.
Source: his own site, rezapirighadim.com, read on 25 October 2026.
Lexpad
Reza founded Lexpad and makes it: the vocabulary notebook where you save the words you meet, AI writes each card, and spaced repetition brings each word back.
His name is on Lexpad’s store listings: Lexpad for Windows in the Microsoft Store and the extension in Microsoft Edge Add-ons are published under his name, and the Mac app is signed with his Apple Developer ID. The desktop app’s source code is public on his GitHub.
More about the product: About Lexpad.
How these guides are made
- Guides are drafted with AI assistance, checked against the Lexpad app and the sources linked in each guide, and published by Reza.
- Each guide shows when it was last checked or updated.
- Lexpad is our own product. In comparisons it is labelled “ours”.
- There are no affiliate links or paid placements.
- Found a mistake? Write to hello@lexpad.app. Confirmed corrections are dated on the page.
Guides and tools by Reza
He writes about vocabulary learning, spaced repetition, learning from videos and reading, and how language apps compare. Here are all 51 guides, 5 free tools and 5 translated guides, newest first in each group.
Learning vocabulary 15
- Language-learning glossaryUpdated
- How to memorize vocabularyUpdated
- Active recall for vocabularyUpdated
- The forgetting curveUpdated
- Comprehensible input and vocabularyUpdated
- How many words to be fluent?Updated
- Build your vocabulary as an adultUpdated
- How to learn phrasal verbsUpdated
- Remember new words from booksUpdated
- The Leitner system explainedUpdated
- CEFR levels for vocabularyUpdated
- How many new words a day?Updated
- IELTS vocabulary: build your own listUpdated
- Spaced repetition for vocabularyUpdated
- Leitner boxes or FSRS?Updated
By language 6
- How to learn Spanish vocabularyUpdated
- How to learn French vocabularyUpdated
- How to learn Italian vocabularyUpdated
- How to learn German vocabularyUpdated
- How to learn Japanese vocabularyUpdated
- How to learn Korean vocabularyUpdated
From videos, reading and calls 10
- Learn vocabulary from videosUpdated
- Learn English with YouTubeUpdated
- Sentence mining, step by stepUpdated
- Learn English at workUpdated
- Language Reactor alternativesUpdated
- Trancy alternativesUpdated
- Migaku alternativesUpdated
- Save new words while reading onlineUpdated
- Save words from PDFs and e-booksUpdated
- Kindle words to flashcardsUpdated
Comparisons 12
- Lexpad vs Anki for vocabularyUpdated
- Anki alternatives for vocabularyUpdated
- Free Quizlet alternatives for language learningUpdated
- Anki vs Quizlet for language learningUpdated
- Is Duolingo good for vocabulary?Updated
- Readlang and LingQ alternativesUpdated
- Lexpad vs MemriseUpdated
- Clozemaster vs LexpadUpdated
- LingQ vs ReadlangUpdated
- Vocabulary.com alternativesUpdated
- Lexpad vs Quizlet for vocabularyUpdated
- Which vocabulary app fits how you learn?Updated
Notebooks and your words 8
- Vocabulary flashcards with ChatGPT or ClaudeUpdated
- Move your Anki or Quizlet wordsUpdated
- Anki on iPhone for freeUpdated
- How Lexpad worksUpdated
- Free vocabulary notebook and journal templateUpdated
- Install Lexpad in Brave, Opera or VivaldiUpdated
- Vocabulary notebook: how to make oneUpdated
- Digital vocabulary notebookUpdated
Free tools 5
- Text to flashcardsUpdated
- Kindle Vocabulary Builder exporterUpdated
- Quizlet to Anki converterUpdated
- Anki deck converterUpdated
- Spaced repetition calculatorUpdated
In other languages 5
- Kelime defteri (Türkçe)Updated
- Vokabelheft anlegen (Deutsch)Updated
- Cuaderno de vocabulario (Español)Updated
- Caderno de vocabulário (Português)Updated
- Carnet de vocabulaire (Français)Updated
Elsewhere
- rezapirighadim.com: his own site, with his work history
- LinkedIn: to message him
- GitHub: where the Lexpad desktop app’s source code is public
About Lexpad or a guide: hello@lexpad.app.
Lexpad
Read a guide, then keep its words.
Lexpad is free to start, on the web and on Android. Bring the words you meet.